Think on your feet for our Fast and Curious 5K, a one-of-a-kind race hosted by W.B.E.Z and the Chicago Sun Times on Saturday, July 27th at Humboldt Park.

More info and Early Bird registration at W beez.org

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From W.B.E. Z. Chicago, this is Nernet.

I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. I am so

excited to sit back and unwind from the week that was with two excellent humans. With us this week we have Dan Pashman host of the Sporkful podcast inventor of the

casketelli pasta shape and author of the new cookbook anything is possible

Dan welcome back. Hey Greta, thanks for having me.

Also here is the delightful Helen Rosner staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the newsletter

The Food Scene, Helen, welcome back.

Hey Greta!

Okay, so this week we are going to play a game that we have really been enjoying here at internet.

It is called Burden or Delight. It is very simple. There are no stakes at all and also no prizes either.

The idea is we're going to talk about some stuff.

We're going to do all food stuff this week,

and we get to decide whether the thing is a burden or a delight.

So my thought was that we could start

with the idea of the it restaurant, because I think this is kind of an

interesting one I mean it's definitely happened to me here in Chicago where I've had like a

delightful neighborhood bakery get a mention in say the New York Times or whatever and then all of a sudden there's a line

around the block and while I am very happy for them I am very sad for me and the amount of time

it takes for me to get whatever delicious pastry I wanted.

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